#you really don't realize what you have until you see america's version of it

[pa-pa-plasma]

americans are so funny because even when they brag about their public transportation everyone else is like "oh... that sounds terrible :[ are you okay"

[rederiswrites]

I don't see how trump turning America into a christofacsist state is any different than the norm? like it's been like that for native and black people since it's creation like we inspired the nazis in the first place so like what the point? oh trumps gonna kill everyone who isn't a white cis male! and? that's what america's best quality since day one

Okay I'm actually going to respond to this Edgelord Supreme bullshit, because as absurd as it looks written out like this, I actually do think a lot of people are feeling some half-articulated version of this despair and cynicism. Let's kick that in the ass.

First, let's get one thing straight. History has been terrible awful bad always and forever. There have been a thousand genocides and a million wars and a billion brutal, inhuman war crimes. Back in the days of the earliest civilizations, wiping out entire cities when you defeated them was basically just how things were done for many societies. The fact that we have international laws and international bodies of justice, however obviously toothless they remain, is the result of thousands of years of extremely mixed progress.

So at this point, you pretty much have to say either that a) humans are an incurable blight and don't deserve to live, or b) that we've done amazing, beautiful things and experienced billions of moments of happiness and created art and fallen in love despite all this, so we're still worth working on. Personally, I am very strongly in camp b. I see things worth living for a hundred times a day. There's really no comparison.

Second, the USA is not uniquely bad. It is terribly damaging to people both within its borders and all over the world. It is build on genocide and slavery. Many of its foundational institutions are deeply corrupted by these things. And guess what, that's uh....pretty common. No, really. The US is currently a big fucking problem. It's our turn with the big stick, for sure. But even then, we're not alone.

So how the fuck is this encouraging? It isn't. I'm not encouraging you, I'm telling you to fucking GET GOOD, because when you say shit like the above, what I hear is "Oh I SEE, I'm a TERRIBLE PERSON I guess I should just kill myself to make your life easier." I hear someone who would rather give up and call their country morally bankrupt and irredeemable than to PUT IN SOME FUCKING WORK.

Cynicism is so comfortable. It doesn't ask anything of you. "It's always been like this," it says. "Nothing's going to change."

Except things do change, and things have changed, and your entire premise is in fact absolute dogshit. The two presidential candidates are not remotely the same, and we are not, yet, a Christofascist nation. I could, as many before me already have, enumerate the million concrete ways in which your premise is just not true, but honestly I won't bother, because it's not a premise in good faith. What I mean by that is that even a cursory examination of the actual facts would totally trash your expressed beliefs, so you're not really interested in the facts.

Change for the better can happen. Change for the better has happened. It's just not as EASY as you want it to be. There are more steps. For example, you can't have viable independent candidates until you have campaign finance and voting reform. So you have to push for those things. For years, probably decades. Many people have died without seeing the realization of things they fought for, and yet those things have come to pass. You may die fighting the good fight and not see the victory. I may too. Meanwhile, you make the choices that will hopefully get the fewest people killed.

So stop acting like we're all just too shitty to bother about, and put in some fucking work.

[nekoannie-chan]

Tension

Title: Tension.

Fandom: Marvel, Captain America.

Ship: Brock Rumlow X Reader.

Word count: 296 words.

Square: 1 “Forced to strip.”

Rating: Mature.

Summary: You’re in Brock’s trap.

Major Tags: Forced nudity.

Additional tags: This is my entry for the @fandom-free-bingo Valentine edition.

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You were standing next to Brock Rumlow in an abandoned building, both of you covered in dust.

You'd just confronted him; you needed to know the truth before.

“Are you okay?” asks Brock in his gravelly voice, his breathing still labored as he tries to see through the darkness.

“Yeah, just a little banged up, but nothing serious,” you replied.

“We need to find a safe place until we get picked up,” he says, breaking the awkward silence.

You follow him through the building, a part of you afraid of him, but at the same time you can't help but be drawn to him.

“We need a distraction,” he muttered, pulling a cigarette from his vest pocket.

“You shouldn't smoke in here,” you tell him, though you don't really care.

“We all have our vices.”

You lean against the opposite wall, watching him as he smokes silently.

“What's on your mind?” He asks suddenly, his eyes fixed on you.

“Not much,” you lie. “I'm just tired.”

“You don't fool me. I know you better than that.” Brock leans forward, stubbing his cigarette out against the ground. His eyes don't leave yours as he speaks. “You're right. Tonight has been different. But it's not just the mission.”

“What are you doing?” you question.

“What I should have done a long time ago,” Brock replies in a whisper before leaning towards you.

And that's when you realize it had all been a trap if only you had realized it earlier...

Brock's hands land on your waist, pulling you to him, and he begins to remove your clothes as he whispers that he noticed how you were flirting with Steve. You try to stop him from undressing you further, but there's nothing to be done.

Nobody plays with Brock.

[rocketchip-comic]

Totally ok if this isn't the vibe of what you're exploring in rocket chip's world, but I'm personally really interested in how different fantasy/sci-fi societies view gender & how that relates to characters, so how does Rocket's planet view that & how does that affect Rocket's worldview, and how does Chip view it, being a robot and all? :D (I adore these two btw your art is so fun & it brightens my day to see them!!)

Ooh I like this question! It's something I've thought about a lot . (BIG DISCLAIMER: every time I mention societal stuff here I'm speaking from a VERY American lens. For our purposes we can assume Rocket is from the equivalent of America. I can't speak for anything else.)

Fun fact, if you go back far enough, my original concept for rocket and chip had them both be boys! I ended up rethinking that after going through some reevaluation of my own identity. I realized that I only made them male because that's what I mostly saw in other sci-fi stories, and I wanted to make the characters be closer to my own experiences. I'm a girl, and I like being a girl! But I don't want that to define me, y'know? I decided that the label can mean whatever I want it to mean, and whatever I'm comfortable with. So I decided it would be the same for these two!

You'll notice I refer to Rocky and Chip as girls, but I only use she/her pronouns for them outside of the actual comic. Within the story's text, I've been trying not to have them refer to each other by any gendered terms at all! And if it can't be avoided, they both use they/them. This is mostly because I want readers to come to their own conclusions, and not focus on it too much!

Rocket's planet is extremely similar to ours, just with an extremely exaggerated version of our class divide. The rich cats created a barrier around the planet to contain all of the pollution, living on top while the poor "undercrust" cats stayed underneath the shell. Their society is capitalistic to the ultimate extreme, and everyone is focused on working their way up to the top. (Very unlike the cats from earth actually!)

The cats are biologically the same as earth mammals. They're actually the least interesting aliens that appear in the comic haha they're basically just anthro cats.

But another detail that won't be explored until later, is that their society necessitates working so much that the concept of marriage and parenthood doesn't really exist. Things happen and kittens are born, but the majority of the kittens are sent off to live in schools and don't know their parents at all. This makes their view of gender kinda different. There isn't really an expectation for women to have children or be homemakers, likewise there's no expectation for men to be strong protective breadwinners. It's better in some ways, worse in others.

But generally, even though gender inequality still very much exists, gender isn't considered as big of a deal. It's also more socially acceptable to present as gender neutral. Not that they're super progressive or anything, it's just that they don't really care about it as much. Especially from Rocket's point of view. See, Rocket was always ignored a lot. She's short for her species and shies away from attention so she never really cared to express herself at all. She was never really expected to be anything but neutral though. It was less of her choice, and more a side effect of being easily overlooked and not really thinking much of herself.

The ONE thing you could consider "girly" about Rocket is that her favorite color is pink and she loves things decorated with hearts. She's a little embarrassed about that now, but over time she'll start showing it more! But it's the reason she always wears that jacket with the pink heart and trims. But even if she was a different gender she would always love pink hearts!

Now Chip's origins are still a total mystery for now! 🤫 But she genuinely did not consider gender AT ALL. I think she still hasn't. Not a thought in her head. When the alien at the recycle shop referred to her as an "it" she was not at all offended. Chip genuinely would never care what pronouns you'd use for her. For that matter, Chip's body is all doll anatomy. If she wasn't already wearing clothes when Rocket woke her up for the first time, she would prefer not to wear any. (The only reason she continues to wear clothes at all is because Rocket gets embarrassed when she doesn't. Chip thinks this is hilarious. Chip thinks the concept of sex at all is hilarious.)

Now considering all that, why does chip use she/they pronouns? Because Rocky does!!! And Rocky is so cool! It's as simple as that!

[braveclementine]

Day 20~ 1:34 P.M.

Warnings: None, Readers under 18 can read this book.

Copyright: My OCs are Coach Yonce, Emma, Ila, Tempus, and Itty Bitty. I own these characters. I do not condone any copying of this.

For the most part, I had recovered from everything. The doctors had to re-break my knee though to set it properly. I was glad I was out for that. They cleaned all of my wounds and re-dressed them. They said we could look into getting a prosthetic for my pinky finger. I said I'd think about it.

It felt selfish to get a pinky finger prosthetic though when there were men and women coming in from war with blown off limbs and having to deal with that. If anyone need a prosthetic, it was them. I'd deal with a missing finger.

My parents managed to come and see me earlier today around nine in the morning. They didn't wake me up, so I didn't really see them until more around ten. Both my mother and my father were crying, though my brothers were slightly in the corner playing video games on their phones. They got off once they realized I was awake.

"Hey sweetheart." My mom said, tears streaming down her face. My mother was a very ugly crier, but right now she was the most beautiful sight in the world.

"Hi mom." I said, tears streaming down my own face. My mother and father peppered me with kisses, before they laid the presents they'd brought me down on the bedside table.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 in DVD form since I'd missed the movie version. My brothers had bought extra Funko Pops so I didn't just have Dr. Strange and Iron man now. There was also Loki, Thor, Gamora, Starlord, Bucky Barnes, Captain America, and Hawkeye.

My stomach flipped unpleasantly upon seeing them. They had been there.

I said nothing though, except thanking them with what I hoped was the proper enthusiasm. I'd probably sell them on Amazon later. I could probably make a lot of money off of them. Maybe I could make even more if I signed the boxes. I had to be somewhat famous, right?

I questioned after Itty, Jaguar, and Otter's health. They were all fine, with their families back in California. My mother told me that different Marvel actors had been hosting them. Apparently my own family was staying with Chris Evans. Itty Bitty's family was staying with Benedict Cumberbatch, Emma was waiting for her parents to fly in from England with Chris Hemsworth, and Otter and her family were with Tom Hiddleston.

I did ask if they had seen Sebastian Stan. They didn't know anything that had passed between the two of us except that he had been there.

"He's been really torn up over you for some reason." My brother said in a bored voice. "I mean, he doesn't say anything, but whenever mom and dad left the room or whatever he was always asking Chris Evans or Robert Downey Jr. if you'd been found."

"Yeah, mom think she fancies you." My other brother joked.

I coloured a little, wondering at that statement.

"Mr. Downey has been amazing." My mother gushed. "He's been providing for all of the lawyers and everything. Well, helping get lawyers I should say. That Real Estate agent? Donald Trump? He had some good lawyers to help us out with suing the Russo brothers and the others that were involved."

"So. . . none of the Marvel actors knew what was going on?" I asked slowly, not entirely sure what I wanted the outcome to be.

"No." My mother said with a shake of the head. "In fact, one of the actors, the one that played Doctor List, he was killed to prevent him from spreading to the word. Apparently Mr. Stan told him what was happening and tried to get word out."

So Sebastian really had tried to get the word out? And the first doctor had been an actor?

"Miss Y/L/N, there are some people here to see you." A nurse said, coming into the room a few hours later.

"We'll leave you with them then." My mother said, kissing my forehead out and ushering my brothers out of the room.

Figuring it would be Itty or Otter or Emma or all of them, I attempted to prop myself up against the headboard.

"I don't think you should be sitting up yet." A familiar voice said and I froze.

"Sebastian." I whispered.

"Hey." He said softly, taking a seat next to the bed.

He was dressed nicely, his long pulled back into the man bun I loved. He seemed almost nervous and I guess I couldn't blame him. The last time I'd seen him, I'd killed someone and pointed a gun at his face.

"Er- I'm not alone." He muttered, gesturing behind him.

I looked up to see Robert Downey Jr., Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, and Chris Evans there.

"Oh, er, hi." I said awkwardly, blushing. I had the hugest crush on Dr. Strange so this was kind've weird.

"Nice to finally meet you." Robert Downey Jr. said, holding his hand out as though I was the famous person. "Glad you're here as well. Stan over here has been a mess without you."

"Shut it Robert." Sebastian growled.

I smiled a little as I shook Downey's hand.

"Marvel fan?" Chris asked with a bit of a smile, gesturing to all the Funko Pops.

My face burned again, "Of sorts. I haven't seen any of the Captain America movies though. Er- I like Dr. Strange and Tony Stark."

Benedict smiled, shaking my hand as well. Tom grinned, laughing a little. Downey didn't seemed phased. "Of course I was your favorite."

"Well actually, Strange, then you, then Loki." I smiled. "But you know. But um, why are you all here?"

"Someone had to take care of Sebastian." Downey said, causing Sebastian's ears to go red. "And we're also the ones most invested in the case."

I nodded my head but couldn't really think of anything else to say. Luckily, Downey clapped his hands together once and said, "Well, we'll take these Funko pops out to sign them and leave you and Sebastian alone."

"Er- do you want them signed?" Chris asked, but as Robert was already carrying them out of the room, I cracked a smile. Robert was so cool.

"I, um, I'm sorry for pointing a gun at your face. I was terrified, I thought you were in on everything, that you had just been playing me." I murmured, looking away from him.

"I don't blame you." Sebastian was quiet. "It had to be confusing for you. I can't even imagine with everything you'd gone through what you were thinking."

There was a moment of silence before he said. "It was real for me too."

I lifted my eyes to his for a moment and he seemed serious enough. "All of it Y/N. The bad and the good. It was all real to me."

I hesitated, saying nothing. I wasn't entirely sure what he was trying to say.

Sebastian gently reached out and took both my hands into his. "It was real to me. I love you Y/N. Maybe on this facet you weren't entirely certain, but this is how I feel. Maybe you still don't want to see me ever again. Maybe you'd prefer to go without the spotlight being with me would put you in. But I want to be with you."

I could barely breathe. It was like something straight out of a book. Sebastian Stan, famous actor, wanted to be with silly old me?

"A-are you sure?" I asked breathlessly.

"Yes. I mean, I know I'm going to have to go through some therapy and shit before I'm fit to take perfect care of you. But I want to work through things with you, if you want to." He asked breathlessly.

I laughed a little, "Yeah, they're sending us to some sort of therapy treatment center. Me, Itty, Otter, and Emma. Apparently we have to live there and finish some sort of program and then we're free to leave if we pass at the end. But once I get out, if you still want to come and find me, I would like to be with you too."

Sebastian grinned and before I knew it, we'd both leaned into each other, our lips connected in a passionate kiss.

"I'll always find you Y/N. And if I can't, I'll never stop searching for you. That's a promise." Sebastian whispered against my cheek.

"Thank you for taking care of me in there Sebastian." I whispered, holding tightly on his hand. "I wouldn't have survived without you."

Sebastian squeezed my hand and stayed with me until I fell asleep once more.

⬅️➡️

[sekhithefops]

The World is Run by Jerry Smiths

So, its a popular idea that there's a shadowy cabal of rulers running the world. The Illuminati, the Deep State, the Lizard People, what have you.

Personally, I have my own theory on this one.

They're not shadowy or secret.

They really don't run the world in any sense but running it into the ground.

They're all basically Jerry Smith from Rick & Morty.

Now hear me out.

In Rick & Morty, Jerry Smith is Morty's father. He is an insecure little tit who is forever trying and failing to prove his worth, because he doesn't realize he has no worth to prove. He's pretty pathetic.

He almost gets murdered by Meeseeks when he tries (and fails) to improve his golf game, the short-lived helper creatures realizing that they can be free of their existence if they get rid of him and (technically) fulfill his request by doing so ("we can't take two strokes off his game, but we can take all strokes off it!")

He gets used by the ruler of Pluto to try to get people to ignore the fact that their planet is being destroyed by their own abuses of it and goes along with it because his ego is getting stroked the entire way, to the point of humiliating his son on stage.

And he's such a man-child that he winds up in a literal daycare for Jerrys that an alternate version of Rick established to take care of them while a universe's Rick and Morty were off having adventures.

Every time I see Jerry, I'm reminded of... honestly a lot of political figures in the United States (probably other countries too, but I try to avoid political news that doesn't directly affect me as it would only stress me out horribly.)

Lately America has been on one of it's regular Moral Panics that will, more often than not, blow up in the GOP's face in the end. We've had the Satanic Panic, the Porn Rock hearings of the 80s, and the like... now we're on to Transpeople. Politicians are trying to mandate how gender works because... I dunno, they're afraid of getting cooties or something (or more likely the usual 'we're trying to incite a culture war to avoid the class war that will likely happen one day.')

One of the worst offenders of this is Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida. A little toad of a man who is so insecure that he wears stealth high heels in order to make himself appear taller than he is as he attacks anything and everything he considers "woke" in revenge for... well, whatever. Probably losing the 2024 nomination to a pile of Cheetos in an ill-fitting suit.

Moving away from the political sphere we can find Jerries in the leadership of the business world as well. A prime example is one of the reasons I reactivated my Tumblr account in the first place. Everyone's favorite little shit, Elon "Elongated Muskrat" Musk.

Elon is 100% what Jerry would be if he had a lot of money. He got laughed at on Twitter, so he bought it and bans everyone who looks at him funny. He buys up companies and claims he's a genius scientist for inventions he had no hand in designing (and that come out far worse for his involvement post-takeover.)

A closer to home example would be Tumblr's own Photomatt, who I didn't even know existed until recently and having found out about them I wish I could return to that happy place of ignorance.

Because a transperson was... honestly as far as I can tell existing to them for more than a few minutes they banned their account, then did so again when they made a burner account, then once more with feeling, then possibly a few more times (I lost count.)

Of course he's now getting dunked on from all sides and has only his millions of dollars and the ability to threaten siccing the FBI on offenders while screaming incoherently like a toddler who was told they can't have a cookie.

Again, Jerry Smith, but with money.

So yeah. Got a bit rambly there, but thats how I see the world really. Its not a bunch of tyrannical fascists, its a bunch of insecure little men who can't handle even the tiniest bits of criticism without having a panic attack.

Where's Rick when you need him?

[cakejerry]

I need to hear more on why you dropped BTS before

Ok. Tl;dr desperation for american validation beginning in 2017

Pretty normal scope of events actually.

1. Fucking hated spring day when it dropped, snoozer ballad, liked not today better. It doing so well on the charts only made me angrier. I had preordered both versions of the album and it turned out to only be a shitty repackage beating a dead horse (hyyh symbolism) into the ground. Stopped paying attention to their live shows as much but still kept up with the fandom.

2. Then boom they're being invited to billboard for a fake ass popularity stunt and everyone's acting like it's such a big deal. Bitch what the fuck is billboard? I genuinely dgaf. American validation desperation starts. I keep up with their releases even less. They're being cringe as fuck selling out to america and bringing in idiots to the fandom. I start hating the way namjoon is acting, as I look back on those days now he's trying WAY too hard with the aegyo and it's fucking annoying.

3. Bts outcast. I just... So cringe. So, so cringe. And everyone was acting so... Idk. People tweeting about jimin dying and laughing and making it blow up until there were actual billboard articles being written about it. Google it if you dont know what im talking about. Some of my tweets from the period:

4. Love yourself concept teasers drop. There's a bunch of random girls for no reason, giving all of them het plotlines in a story about friendship. Cringe. Someone tweets "dont sexualise their relationship with the girls don't disrespect them like that!" and someone replies "yoongis girl is going to eat his ass i can see it in her eyes" (very important to the narrative). I start feeling disconnected from jimin and start finding jungkook very attractive.

5. Dna teaser drops and im like ohhh this about to be good they're bringing retro back!! Turns out... They're going to be having the debut stage in america. I stay up with a friend all night watching it. Its exciting, but.... I don't care about america. I don't, i dont i dont. I truly dont. Oh yeah THE CHAINSMOKERS are on the album. I fucking hate collabs. I hate americans. But, whatever. The album is good. Like, really good. Serendipity is a jimin solo song, and I still love him despite my best interests. Best of me is good, pied paper is good, bojok is good, dna is GOOD... mic drop is fine, basic people are going to blow it up like they did with baepsae, but its okay. Im STANNING! But then the problems start arising.

6. Mic drop steve aoki. Need i say more. The lyrics... The sound... We get it, you're hardcore. You're embarrassed to promote colourful pop like dna. You're tough boys who misuse aave. Its so cringe. No one says anything about it. Great. The collab... WHO IS STEVE AOKI??? IDGAF!!!

6.5 deliberately leaving this one out just to check if anyone is still reading... The worst betrayal of my life *shiv gif*

7. And then... the american promotions. I stop paying attention completely. I start resenting everything. The way they look, the way they talk. Fans start making fun of a pic of jimin where it looks like he didnt cut his toenails. Rumors start circling that he got his chipped tooth fixed. I... Idk. It's the little things. I can't describe how awful the fandom space was, you just had to be there. The american influx was awful. Burn the stage drops. Another cash grab. People make fun of jungkook being sick. The love yourself concept feels hollow. I go back to wings and realize we have lost the plot.. hoseok is singing about his real life mother and people are creating theories about how it all relates back to the hyyh storyline. Jungkook is singing about how much he loves his hyungs and he didn't even write the words; rap monster did. I hate rap monster. Rap monster changes his name to RM- its less cringe to the americans that way. They change their logo- its minimalist now, to appeal to the americans. They're not the bulletproof boyscouts anymore. They're beyond the scene. Its hybe, not bighit. They're embarrased. They're changing themselves. They write all of their songs. (They really dont.) No but they do! We have to chart. (Inflate those numbers guys!) They're the only kpop group worthy of success. They paved the way! They write their own songs. We can tell! (Stream stream stream). Im completely removed. I only hear about them through 3rd hand sources. Bt21... Merch... Money.. sell... Buy... Book, movie, another repackage album, another movie, a game, another game, buy, sell, money.... I see the video of jimins voice breaking in fake love-- I laugh. Oh they made him show his abs for that comeback... Great. We only love him for his body, anyways. Oh, they're collabing with some random white bitch.... Okay.... Its called boy with luv?... But boy in luv will forever be MY baby. They're BIG now. People talk about them. They don't know them like I do. I don't know them like you do. Idol drops and I catch glimpses of it. Its.. too much. Its awful. Everyone calls it the worst song ever. Hearing snippets on the radio at the gym, im bound to agree. I hear nicki minaj's voice. Shout out to korea. Why is she here? What is going on. Why.. why are they doing this. This isnt bts. I hear dynamite on the radio in the grocery store- i only know its bts because of Jimin's disgusting awful dying cat voice. I post about it. Its funny. I love to hate. The song is shit. The song is being payolad onto the radio in my small ass country because bts fans are genuinely crazy. Steam. Inflate. Buy. Break records. Pave the way. NO multis, ONLY solo. Someone says borahae. I don't know what it means. A japanese group i like covers butter. I cant listen to more than 3 seconds of it- it sounds like shit. Its in english. Why is it all in english? The rhymes sound like a third grader wrote them. Is this what my.. my bts are releasing these days? Are they not embarrassed? They're decked out in gucci and lv.. it looks like shit. They look like shit. Theyre embarrassing themselves. Theyre everything they swore theyd never become. Theyre the people they made fun of. They neglect the korean audience. They stop promoting on music shows- its all special release this, single package that. But lets mass buy it. Lets show our love. Money. Money is love. Money will buy them leopard print and tacky sandals. Are they still the same bts i knew? No... No, they're not.

I remember a jhope fansite dying back in the day. I remember that I had never heard about her before, but I remember feeling devastated. I remember feeling connected to her. As I write this, I am praying that she is well. We all came together and shared our condolences. It wasn't an event- we didn't trend anything. But there was a feeling of remorse that day in the fandom. Of community. I remember huddling around the phone with my friend- I had just gotten a twitter notification from bts. They just finished a concert in their red bullet tour. They post a group photo. It gets 10k likes.

Now every time I listen to a bts song in public this flashes in my mind.

I hate bts.

[blednokrov]

Long rant about the OC under the cut. SBR spoilers!

Obviously, Valentine Blue is an alternative universe version of Funny Valentine, but there's a reason why he's that different. Basically FV, knowing that he's the only Valentine who posesses D4C, wanted to see if there's another version of him who's a stand user - if there is, this stand must be different from D4C, but is probably just as powerful! Maybe this other Valentine will be a strong ally that can be used for more than just extra body?

FV doesn't usually reach that far into the multiverse, there's no need to go into places that branch far away from Holy Corpse timeline, so he usually only uses/interacts with copies of himself that are quite much like him - but to find this one he had to find some really obscure timeline.

Why? Because for a Valentine to have a stand at all, it must be not D4C - and since stands are manifestations of souls, he must be a really, really different person with a different soul to have a different stand.

So... He found VB and dragged him to Holy Corpse timeline and was like" yoo cool stand bro, join me in my crusade to make America great again, help me take the napkin, you know?"

And VB was like.... "the what?"

And FV was finally hit by realization just how different they are actually, and honestly? This felt very uncomfortable, borderline uncanny. He's so used to other Valentines understanding and sharing his views and ideals ,that seeing himself who's that different is lowkey creepy, he's almost got the evil shadow clone kinda unsettling feeling.

So, he explained his plans and ideology to VB and VB was like "uhhhh I'm not joining you in whatever this whole ordeal is, it sounds shady and creepy af, can you bring me back home please?"

FV was.... Not pleased with this outcome.

From his point of view, VB is a pathetic, ambitionless man who deserves no respect - hell, his mere existence feels like insult for The Funny Valentine and everything he stands for.

So he decides to kill VB, but uh-oh this guy got a stand, remember? Being a stand user, he managed to escape. FV didn't really pursue him, deciding that nah, let this man choose his own punishment - I mean, didn't he want to go back home more than anything else? Now, not knowing the way back and not posessing D4C, all Valentine Blue can do is wander around this alien dimension where there's no place for him because he doesn't exist, his place in this reality is taken by FV, no one VB knows and cares about knows him here, and his house isn't his.

Honestly, all he wants is to go back home. It all happened around a year before the race, and when SBR started VB decided to join with the only goal - to obtain a part of Holy Corpse. Why? FV told him abt his plans, remember? so VB roughly knows the things behind the race. He wants to get his hands on one of parts, since it's what FV desires the most, and bargain with it for being returned to his home universe. He keeps doing the "yeah people often tell me I look just like the president" bit and can only get away with it because in this era before the photography got widespread people don't really know president's face that well to see that they're the exact same person.

***

A bit about his backstory:

Valentine Blue was abandoned as a baby, and found & adopted by a family of Mexican migrants who found him on their way to a miner town where they got a job, settled and started working at the mines. He grew up speaking both English and Spanish fluently, and his actual name is Valentino Azzurro. His mom always just called him Tino and I'm probably gonna call him this as well in the future to avoid confusion.

He grew up to be a miner, just like his adoptive father and brother, and used to be a quite popular guy - determined, sometimes charismatic even. All was well, until one day the entrance to the mines where they worked crushed, and he and 14 other miners got stuck inside.

They a choice - wait until people from the outside manage to clear the entrance, or find another way out following old tunnels. They couldn't decide what to do and split on the opinions, not taking any decisions out of uncertainty and panic that caused them to be irrational.

"Someone has to take the lead." Tino thought back then, "We will never progress if we just keep trying to decide all together. Someone must take the first step for everyone else to follow."

And so, he went further into the tunnels - and people followed him; he took the turns and they took them with him. He was so sure of himself because he felt like he can handle the responsibility, he can lead, he can make the decisions - and so it was, until one of tunnels they went through didn't turn out to be full of explosive gas - and one of them just so happened to have a fire. They never planned to go beyond their safe territory, so they didn't have any safety measures like canary birds, which is why it took them by surprise.

All 15 miners were buried under the ground and rocks. 4 days later, they were discovered; Tino was found severely dehydrated and non compos mentis - being buried alive for four days kinda does it for your mental state (he still suffers from quite severe claustrophobia and fear of darkness he developed back then due to the trauma).

The only reason he was alive is that ground/rocks that were in contact with his body crumbled to dust, creating an air pocket around him; this was when C2G awakened. As soon as he realized things he touches turn into dust he immediately tried to dissolve rocks to get other guys out - but sadly, it was too late.

14 bodies were recovered from the mines, some crushed, some suffocated, one exploded to pieces: among them, Valentine's brother and father.

To say he regretted every decision he made is to say nothing. He felt that what happened was purely his responsibility, that if he only haven't decided to make that first stupid call, everyone would be alive and safe with their families. He hated himself for daring to even think he had the right to make the decision for them - to decide their fate in such a way. He thought himself to be undeserving to be the one who lived, since it was his responsibility and he should've at least die with them.

Tino felt like he couldn't even look in the eyes of all these vidows and orphans he created by deciding to play a leader out of stupid pride and thinking himself to be entitled to do it; but most importantly, he felt like he couldn't look in the eyes of his adoptive mother after causing deaths of her husband and her "real" son.

So, what he did was to run away- or as he put it, he left the town with no goodbye and wandered around the country for next couple of years, doing various jobs here and there. He was snatched by FV right from the streets basically.

While being stuck in his predicament in the SBR-verse, he thought about his home and family a lot, and came to realization that he wants to go back and talk to his mother, to apologize, to look her in the face.

"It might sound like I'm thinking way too much of myself - she might be hating me now for all I know. But I feel like after taking away her husband and one of her sons, I shouldn't have run - taking away her only other child left."

Not That Funny Valentine

[stuckybarton]

What Has Been What Can Never Be VI

Summary: Steve Rogers had returned to the past, hoping to move on from the chaos of the future. Leaving the woman that had loved him as someone more than just the persona of Captain America and his best friend that has always been with him until the end of the line. But as he had come to settle in this new life back in his own time, regret was somehow coming to follow. When he decides to return to the present, things have changed and you, the woman that had always promised to be there for him was now happy with his best friend as the two of you moved on with your lives without Steve Rogers in it. Characters: Bucky Barnes x Witch!Reader; Ex!Steve Rogers x Witch!Reader; Steve Rogers x Peggy Carter. Sam Wilson. Helmut Zemo. Sharon Carter. John Walker Words: 1,619 Warnings: None

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VI: For The Ones That Chose To Move On

"So how much did you and Sarah bet on?" You inquired with a smile as soon as Sam had caught sight of you and Bucky when you returned to Zemo's castle. A knowing smile already playing on his lips the moment he saw the way Bucky held onto your hands.

"She bets after the trip I bet during the trip." he smirked coming to pull the both of you into a big hug. "Always knew you two would finally pulled your heads up your asses." he teased earning an eye roll from Bucky and a grin from you.

You turned your eyes back towards Bucky, as embarrassed as he looked about being found out like this, he seemed happy. More happy than you would have actually thought him to be after all that the both of you shared in your family's tomb. The promise he has made as well as the promise you had also made to make things work for the two of you from now on.

"Why do I even ask." You playfully muttered pulling away from Sam's hug and smiling after realizing that Sam still held onto Bucky and surprisingly giving the man a much needed warning of getting his ass kicked if he ever so much as hurt you. It clenched onto your heart to have someone like Sam as a big brother when you needed him to be (or on most occasions when you don't even ask him to be).

"I'll break the bones of anyone that would even try to hurt her." Bucky muttered finally pulling himself away from Sam's affection and his attention was solely on you now. "I made a promise and I'm not about to break it." he smiled and you believed him as he spoke those words. Words that you had come to live by from now on. Nothing is more important for you than his words.

"Ms. Y/L/N,"

Everyone's eyes turned to the owner of the voice, Oeznik, who held a phone in his hand and for a moment brought a sudden flash of worry to you and even the duo that was quick to see the seriousness in the face of the butler for whoever was on the other line.

Taking the phone from the butler, you stepped away from everyone's line of hearing.

"Y/N speaking." You whispered as soon as you had stood in the far end of the corner away from them.

"Been a long time since I've heard from you, Y/L/N." You tensed at the voice of Director Fury, memories of the things you had to do for the man in the past for the sake of what was supposed to be SHIELD and the truth of what it really was. "I'd take it you're in Sokovia right now?"

"As far as I know, I'm a civilian and whatever I do in my spare time is no one's business but my own." You spoke tersely, doubting the need for the sudden conversation with the man after everything that had happened in the past.

"No civilian would go head to head with one Emil Blonsky as far as I know." He retorts right back to which made you wince, should have known the man would be aware of your actions for the past week. "Has Ross made you aware of the need for the man?"

"I don't ask questions I should know nothing about." You muttered, knowing if you did it would compromise the agreement you had with General Ross. "It's not something I would want to be a part of."

"If I said he was going to creating his own version of the Avengers Initiative, would you be joining them?"

You tensed at the fact that it would be a possibility, they had their own little team to do their bidding and you were there to help in recruiting some of it. The fact that if that were the case, you couldn't. There was no Tony or Natasha to make the team whole, to make it the same family like you had before. Ross could never replace that, not for all the money and power in the world.

"I am a civilian now, Fury." You whispered, coming to peace with the fact. "Unless the world is in grave danger like it was during the blip, I want to live the life I had never thought I'd be allowed to have."

"And that's all I needed to know. We still have eyes on some of the people he has eyes on, and I want you to be careful, for your sake as well as Barnes and Wilson's."

"They're not gonna join a twisted crew, not for all the money in the world." You know as much and your faith in the two men knows it too.

"I know Rogers wouldn't want you three either."

"It's not about Steve anymore, Director." You were quick to respond, trigger by having Steve's name placed in the conversation. "It's about what me, James and Sam believe in. Steve Rogers is dead and we finally chose to move on."

~

One of the few things Bucky has learned since meeting you was how easy it was to tick you and how you constantly find ways to destress yourself when the need arises. This was one of those times. Whoever was on the phone has completely pissed you off had made you haul yourself straight to your temporary bed in Zemo's castle, the smell of incense and lavender wafted all throughout the hallway.

A part of Bucky wanted to check on you, but knowing you the way that he did, you needed space. Space to think and compose yourself before you say anything you do not mean. Bucky had experience that a lot in the months of knowing you, and how it had constantly ate you inside afterwards.

"Who do you think made a call?"

Sam was quick to sense your distress as much as Bucky. In light of everything, also knew it wasn't the right time to talk to you when you're in this frame of mind. The chaos that the Flag Smashers has caused was one of those moments.

"Your guess is just as good as mine."

"Maybe it's Ross? Got someone else he wants her to extract for him."

Bucky trusted you, with whatever General Ross wanted for you to do, he knew perfectly well you could handle it. The bruises and scratches were just something he knew he had to live with. He was worried, constantly as always, but he trusted you to come back when you promise you would. But even in the trust and confidence he has in your abilities, it scared him what they could actually do to you.

"Maybe..." Bucky trailed off, eyes lingering at the door the two of them were standing in front of as they waited for you to actually come out of. "I honestly don't know." He sighed eyes boring a hole into the door.

"Think she's safe with dealing with Ross--and whoever else Walker is working for?"

"No." Bucky spoke just as honestly, there was this underlying worry he still has but was still uncertain if he should voice. "But I'm gonna try my best to protect her, from any ulterior motive they have against her."

"Walker said something, and I got a bad feeling about whatever they have plan, Y/N might just be a part of something we know nothing about."

"I'm not joining if that's what both of you are worried about."

Finally slipping out of your room, Bucky was still at awe with you. Even with the ghost of your own past, here you still were. Shaken as you still were from your conversation, the reassuring smile laid on your lips making your way to him. Arms were quick to wrap around Bucky's torso, face nestled against his chest and for a moment, Bucky was at peace.

"My agreement with General Ross was I would just be helping him with a few people he needed. Nothing more and nothing less. He can't make me be part of a team that is never a family to me."

That was the difference neither men would have thought to be the real factor for you to stay away.

"Let's grab something to eat, I know Oeznik has something dished out for us." Sam had patted you on the back before leaving the both of you alone for a moment.

"You really okay?" Bucky inquired looking down at you, still nestled on his chest.

"I'm trying to be." You whispered finally pulling your face away from his chest, to get a good look at him. "It's so hard to move on when the world around me is still trying to make the same effort."

"Everyone has their own time to mourn and move on, just like you and me."

He knew as much, he had watched you try your best to move on with life and with everything that had happened in both of your past, it's never going to be easier if he was to be honest. But it was a start, as long as they had each other. Nothing will come to hurt you and he was certain as much as it wasn't your job, you will protect him just as much.

"I'm doing my best to do it," You whispered hands resting on his chest, the warmth of your hands against his chest made him smile, "But I don't know if I'm going to strong enough when it gets too much."

"I'm here." He assured, a smile playing on his lips. "Whatever you may need, I'm here for you. Until the end of the line, Y/N."

[bedlamsbard]

Favorite moment in CATFA?

oooohhhhh so much of CATFA is so good; I don't think anything specifically is jumping out at me right now as an absolute favorite! so here's a sequence in it that I really like, and that's Steve breaking into the Hydra facility in Krausberg --

-- because Steve is playing Captain America. Why does Steve stay in his Captain America sweater? He has normal clothes; he's still an Army officer and we see him in various versions of the normal U.S. Army uniform both before and after he ~becomes Captain America for real, back when he's still with the USO as well as after he goes to the SSR. Why does he take the shield? It's not like he doesn't know it's not Army issue. Why take the "A" helmet (which is not a normal part of his costume, since he borrows it from one of the chorus girls)? He could acquire a ~normal helmet or even not use one at all, but he's doing on the fly adjustment of the Captain America costume to make it something that actually works for combat. (And some of what he does later ends up transferring over the main uniform.) Then once he's actually at the HYDRA facility, when he's interacting with people that either aren't Bucky or that he's not just punching out, he's still very much playing Captain America -- that's how he introduces himself when he's breaking the POWs out. When he's having his first interaction with Schmidt, that's the really interesting part -- because "Captain America" is also how Schmidt addresses him.

(I don't think Schmidt ever knew what Steve Rogers looked like before the serum -- there's no indication that he knew about skinny Steve, because he looks Steve up and down and says, "So Dr. Erskine managed it after all. Not exactly an improvement, but still, impressive," and I'm pretty sure the "it" is just the super soldier part, because the physical transformation is such an outlier as far as any version of the super soldier goes. If you don't know what pre-serum Steve looked like, post-serum Steve just looks like a really fit but otherwise normal guy. There's no indication that Hydra knew who Steve was pre-serum and possibly not even until he literally showed up on their doorstep; the surveillance photos are only of Erskine, not Steve, and Project Rebirth was running on such a tight timeline that it's very likely Hydra only knew the project was going forward but not who with.)

Steve goes out to meet Schmidt on the walkway like he's heading out onto the stage that suddenly isn't a stage, but it's still a performance to him; the "you've got no idea" in response to Schmidt's "impressive" feels like he's playing the role of Captain America, who is, to him, at this point still a role; it's not the much more genuine responses that he has to Schmidt in their later confrontation. And punching Schmidt straight in the face -- that's his "knocking out Hitler" punch, very showy. (We've just seen him punching out people otherwise.) He doesn't go for his pistol until Schmidt hits him back (or rather dents the shield) at which point he very abruptly realizes that oh shit this is the guy who's also a super soldier. All of a sudden it's very real and you see that realization go over Steve's face, the instant he manages to get space from Schmidt and Zola pulls the walkway back. Like, there's so much going over Steve's face in this scene, the whole time after Schmidt's punch all through Schmidt pulling his face off while Schmidt is giving his whole "You pretend to be a simple soldier, but in reality you are just afraid to admit that we have left humanity behind" speech.

LOOK AT THIS! because the thing is -- he's terrified that Schmidt is right (it's something that's only very lightly brushed over elsewhere in the films, the bit in AoU when Thor is going "this is not meant for mortal men!" and then hands the drink to Steve), and it's very much also the moment when he realizes that this isn't a role, this is for keeps, and he's the one who has to do it. (Not to mention the sudden realization that he and Schmidt really are essentially, at this point in time, two of a kind, especially because Schmidt himself acknowledges that.) He blusters up the "Then how come you're running?" but part of him is just panicking before he shoves it away to never deal with again ever, thanks, not ever, since just then he suddenly has something more pressing to deal with (not blowing up).

But I do think of that as the moment when "Captain America" stops being a role and starts being him, Steve Rogers, so to speak. The SSR would honestly probably be perfectly happy for him to not be Captain America and just run a ~normal commando unit, since having your top guy be a celebrity is not ideal for what otherwise seems to be a pretty top-secret unit. They would probably have preferred that. Steve is, presumably, the one who makes the decision to keep the Captain America parts of the uniform -- Steve's the one who decides to keep the shield, but he calls the shots on which shield he wants (Howard Stark seems to have made them all in a sleepless one night binge session; I have no evidence for this, but it feels right) and I'm sure he painted it himself. He doesn't have to do that. It's a wild thing to do. (I have a lot of feelings about the shield and how I don't think for Steve the shield is indicative of "Captain America" the way it is for everyone else, especially during the present day.) But Steve is the one deciding "okay, I am going to be this person and I'm going to be this person, Captain America, as I think they should be, not how anyone else thinks." And he puts those bits and pieces together all through that sequence, figuring out not only who he wants to be, but who he wants Captain America to be.

[pretoriafics]

Teenage Dream Pt. 2 (Interactive story)

Man! I think this one is the most amazing thing I'd ever written! I'll request from all of you guys special attention at the end of this chapter. I'll let you a message, and I'm pretty sure you will love it!

Derek took you to his loft. While you are alone, you start to understand the environment you were now part of. Word count: 2.056 Pairings: Different Dimension!Reader x Derek; Different Dimension!Reader x Platonic!Laura; Different Dimension!Reader x Platonic!Cora; Different Dimension!Reader x Platonic!Talia Contain: It’s pretty fun; AU Warnings: English is not my main language <3 PART 1 ALTERNATIVE VERSION TEEN WOLF MASTERLIST

You finally entered Derek's loft. Oh, man... It was just like in the tv show!

You enter the loft just like if you had entered paradise. With your mouth opened in pure fascination, you swirl around your feet while looking around. Derek came just behind you with arch eyebrows. It would be funny if it doesn't be scary.

"Oh. My. Godness. Is it here that all the pack meetings are made?"

Derek didn't reply to you. Instead of it, he just stares at you. He gives a few steps forward, getting closer to you.

"What's your name?"

You swallowed hard. Derek was with his usual cold expression, arms crossed in front of his chest, and no patience for bullshit.

"(Y/N) (Y/L/N)."

"Good. Look (Y/N) (Y/L/N), you will stay right here. You will not get out, you will not call anyone, or speak with anyone. If you run away from here, I'll kill you faster than you could say to me what happens at season one. Did I made things clear to you?" Shrunken in fear, you just nod, and Derek narrows his eyes to you. "Okay. I need to see someone that you probably know, so-"

"Braeden? Jennifer? Deaton?"

Derek sounds confused to hear the first two names. So, you simply thought that he didn't meet them yet.

"Not of your business."

He gives his back to you, walking out of his loft and closing the door, locking you there. And, wow, you have Derek's loft all for you! Oh man, it just like on the fanfics!

Well, you were curious and excited as hell. Your first thought was something pretty plausible: You used to watch Teen Wolf when you were a teenager. So, being inside the series was just like time-traveling. Smartphones aren't a thing yet, and Dua Lipa music still unknown. As a way to test this theory, you walk in the radio's direction and turn it on. The music that started to fill the room was Friday by Rebecca Black. Yeah, you remind that song, and you instantly felt nostalgic. But it could be just random music on the radio, right?

You switched the radio station, and then Party Rock Anthem By LMFAO starts to play. Well, another song of 2011... But you aren't so sure yet, so you switch the radio station one last time. You almost fell on your back when Domino by Jessie J fills the room. You took a confirmation that yeah, you were back in the 2011's. You are probably during the events of season one.

Well, Scott has just been bit by Peter, Derek just came back from town, and... You are now in the middle of all of that.

"Oh, man!"

You can't do anything for a while. So, all you could do is wait for Derek and whatever he was doing now. You look around while Jessie J sings on the radio, giving you a few nostalgic feelings. Well, you would take a relaxing bath. There's just one problem: All the clothes you have is the one you're wearing now. Without giving a damn, you walk to Derek's wardrobe direction.

"I'm sorry sour wolf, but I'll borrow a few clothes of yours." You open it and take a black shirt. Man, you felt thrilled! "Jeez, this is so like the fanfics!"

You go to the bathroom's direction, taking off your kitten pajama, and putting yourself under the hot water of the shower. Man, Rude Boy by Rihanna starts to play on the radio. You couldn't contain a laugh. It was funny because you were taking a shower and would wear clothes from a legit rude boy.

And, well, you started to sing. It was everything really nice for a few minutes: You were wearing Derek's shirt, listening to a few old pieces of music, and, now, you were in his kitchen making a sandwich.

When you sat on Derek's bed, with your wet hair and your sandwich, Starstrukk by 3OH!3 and Katy Perry started to play. Yeah, that time alone was being nice! You move your body in the music's rhythm while bites your sandwich, still sat on the mattress. You should enjoy that peace while it lasts!

The sandwich was cool, the music either... But you realized that, now, you had a golden chance that every fan would die to have: You are alone in Derek's flat. What kind of things he hides there?

After finishing your sandwich, you look around. You stand up from the mattress and walk around the loft. Getting upstairs, you could find some supernatural books, some weird things that you thought could be some magic stuff, and his laptop. Oh, man! What else hides in his internet searches?

You hold yourself, trying to decide if you should snoop his history on the internet or if you should see what he hides on his bedside table drawer.

When you go downstairs, Animal by Neon Trees fills your ears. You run to Derek's bedside table and opens his drawer. You found his cell phone charger, as well as the laptop one, a coin with a triskelion and... tons of condoms.

Your eyes got widen. This is definitely the kind of thing the TV show hasn't expose.

Also, you noticed Derek's loft needed some... cleaning.

Bored as never before, you walked to the kitchen searching for some cleaning stuff. You found some on a cabinet: A mop and a few other products. Oh, perfect! You took them and, soon, you were sliding the mop through the flat while sings Animal. The flat smells like lavender now, and the floor is so clean that you are proud.

You heard Magic by Rivers Cuomo and B.o.B on the radio, and you sing with the music reminding the parties at your friend's house after school. Suddenly, the door finally opens, and you heard Derek's voice.

"...She's not lying, and I need to know if you already saw something like that before."

You froze with the mop on your hand when you saw Derek. He froze as well. It was understandable: A complete stranger is cleaning his flat and wearing his clothes.

"...Oh, hi! I've borrowed your shirt."

Then, a female voice came behind him.

"There are tons of things that could cause this kind of thing. We need to investigate."

Talia Hale came after his son, as well as Laura and Cora. They also froze with the scene of you wearing Derek's clothes and cleaning his loft. You? Well, your eyes almost had pulled out of your face when you saw them. Talia inhales the air to her lungs, clearly smelling the air.

"Are this... Lavender?"

"Yeah, it is." Laura replied her mom, looking at Derek after that "I think lavender suits you. It's perfect for your flat. It is really your thing, Derek."

You were so confused! What are they doing there? Your chin fell, letting your mouth opened in pure disbelief. Derek rolled his eyes at Laura before look at you again.

"...She'll freak out."

"Oh. My. Gosh. Oh my gosh!!" The mop fell on the floor, and you ran through Talia, Cora, and Laura's direction. "What the hell are you doing here?!"

The Hale women look at each other, and Cora looks at you.

"Well, mom came here to help Derek with, uh, you. And I guess you already know us."

"You shouldn't be here!" You stare at Cora "You should be in South America! And both of you" You stare at Talia and Laura "I can't even talk about you two! Jeez!"

You put your hands on your head, with your mind blowing while the Hale family enters into the loft. Derek turns off the radio before staring at you again.

"I thought you were used to seeing me with them."

You stare at him, with your eyes widen. Your mind was full of theories already.

"Derek, you are definitely not understanding what is happening here. Your family shouldn't be here."

He arches his eyebrows, noticing there's something pretty wrong here.

"What do you mean?"

"Look" You approach them, looking at everyone "I'll do just one question: Did your house was burned some years ago?"

They look at each other, with the engines on their head trying to work. Talia stares at you.

"Yeah, but we had fortunately escaped."

"How about your brother?"

"Peter was the only one that hasn't managed to."

Oh, man... That means one thing. Scared as hell, you sat on the mattress. Derek started to feel anxious and approaches you.

"What's happening?"

You breathe in, staring at the family.

"It shouldn't happen. At the TV show, Talia dies at the fire. Cora ran to South America, Peter got burnt and goes to a clinic, Laura turns herself into alpha, and she stays with Derek. It means that I'm not on the TV Show. I'm inside a fanfic."

Oh, man... It means, basically, that you even haven't so sure about what will happens next. If you were inside the TV Show, you could predict the future. You couldn't do it if you were inside a fanfic.

While you were in complete shock, Talia looks at her family.

"Well... I'll search the most plausible theory of (Y/N)'s arrival. I think we can start looking for some witches near. It can be some work from a coven."

While the Hale family talks about you, you still sat on the mattress, thinking about what the heck was going on. Well, what kind of fanfic did you got into? Was It an insert-reader one, or was It just a common one? Are you the protagonist?

You would test your theory, and you would do it right now.

Knowing the opportunity was just right there, you ran through the flat's door. However, Derek notices your escaping.

"She's running away!"

A mess quickly takes form inside Derek's loft: His announcement made all the Hale run after you, trying to avoid your escaping. They don't know anything about you yet. It could be dangerous to have you simply walking around Beacon Hills.

Fast, you ran through the building until you go outside. A storm quickly takes form, and heavy rain starts to fell from the skies. To everyone's surprise, you stopped in the middle of the asphalt, looking at the sky.

"Hey!" You yelled to something up there "I want a sign! Hey, writer! Readers! Anyone! Am I inside of a fanfic? Answer me! Send me a clue, anything!"

A thunder lightens the skies, and you fell on your knees with a lack of a clue that could help you to find out what was going on. Then, you felt a hand grab your arm.

"Enough, weirdo." Laura said, holding you while the Hale family surrounds you to keep you from running away "You'll stay inside the loft."

With all the last hopes of yours, you look up from the skies. The rainwater runs through your body while you wait. You just want a sign! A clue!

Then, you thought you had seen something. Laura pushes you, making you stand up from the asphalt. And when she was started to drag you to the loft again, you saw something falling from the sky. Derek saw it too.

"Laura, wait."

Everyone looks up, noticing what the heck was that: It was a post-it paper falling from the skies in your direction. When it came close enough, you took it.

Man... When you read it, your face became pale as a candle, and you simply pass out on Laura's arms. Caught by surprise, Laura holds you while everyone runs in your direction. Cora took the post-it paper from your hand and, when she read it, she stares at her family completely incredulous.

"What?" Derek looks at her, in urgency to know what was that. Cora swallowed hard, starting to read the post-it paper out loud.

"Here says: Author's note: Yeah, you are inside a fanfic. Author's note two: Your story has just started, girl."

Yeah, for sure, the Hale family stares at each other in complete shock. Of course, they weren't expecting that your call for a sign would be replied to. Especially by me, the author of your story! Ha! And honestly? I'll think carefully if I'll help you during your journey inside your favorite TV Show, because, honestly? I'll not let things easy for you.

FINAL AUTHOR'S NOTE Here's the thing about this series: I'm the author mentioned at the end of this chapter, y'all are the readers mentioned in the story AND the (Y/N) of this story. Consider that the (Y/N) is the "you" from a different dimension, okay? Why should you consider this: Because you all can communicate themselves with the (Y/N) of that story! At every ending of the chapter, I'll request you to send me something to help the (Y/N) inside the story. You will send it through my ask, right here. Well, the (Y/N) has requested to the readers sent her a sign that she is really inside of a fanfic. Send me your clue for (Y/N) through my ask, and I'll put it on the next chapter to makes her freaking out.

I'll be waiting for y'all!

[invisiblefoxfire]

I don't see enough people adding to this list so fuck it, here's some series I think are worth everyone's time to watch. Don't boycott streaming services unless a boycott is called (which to my knowledge has not happened as of now) - use em if you got em. And if a boycott is called or you can't stream legit, hoist the jolly roger and carry on. Here are some series worth your time. Pick literally any one of these and see if you can finish it before the strike ends!

Adventure Time: If you don't like "kids' shows" start with season 3 or season 6 (later = more mature). Don't start later than season 6, that's when things get really Continuity. I would not recommend this to you if I didn't think it was worth your time. Watch from your starting point till the end, then when you finish crying, go back and watch again from the beginning so you can get all the references you missed.

Leverage: I started watching this show because other Tumblrs wouldn't shut up about it and apparently that's because it's the fucking greatest. "The rich and powerful take whatever they want. We steal it back for you." Just watch it. Go go go.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: (The BBC America version with Elijah Wood.) Do not expect a direct adaptation of the books because this is not that. Expect something where the creators fully internalized the vibes of the books and said "okay but what if the setting was this instead?" Season 1 is the most meticulously crafted series of television I've ever seen. In episode 1 you have no idea what's going on. By the end EVERYTHING is explained. Then you watch it again and not only does it all make sense, but you catch 100 details you missed the first time around. Season 2 is less meticulous but several times gayer and also worth watching.

Doom Patrol: There's loads of this. It's queer, disabled, mentally ill representation. It's hilarious. It's surprising. It's got Brendan Fraser. It's got a drag queen musical number. It's got a genderqueer sentient city street. Why aren't you watching it yet?

MASH: Yes, the original show from the 70s. If I have to sell you on this show then you must not have been around Tumblr for very long. Worth your time and many seasons long. You'll never finish it before the strike ends. I fucking dare you to try.

Star Trek Deep Space 9: We've got transgender aliens. We've got anticapitalists and unions. We've got a black single dad space captain. We've got a very handsome definitely bisexual doctor. Go go go go go.

Schitt's Creek: Six fucking seasons of feel-good comedy/drama featuring the most wholesome and healthy male-male couple I've ever seen in fiction (starting from a couple of seasons in). This show will not leave you tense and worried, hanging by your fingertips on a cliff at the end of an episode. This show will tuck you in with a bedtime story and a kiss and make you feel safe and comfy. Despite not having any canonically trans characters, this show helped me realize I was trans. I will not be elaborating on this until I get at least 10 new recommendations for stuff to watch during the strike. Your move, Tumblr.

I'm going to keep adding to this as the strike continues. Please add your recommendations in reblogs and spread it around. Not just to support the strike but because I personally need more new stuff to watch. Gimmie gimmie gimmie.

Listen up, fellow queers and token straights, we're not gonna whine about the lack of new media during the strike and we're not gonna waiver in our support of the strikers.

In the meantime, we are going to recommend to each other more already-existing media than any of us could ever watch given several lifetimes to do it in.

I'll go first. Here are just a few of the creators I care about and want you to support.

FREE TO WATCH:

Filmjoy: This YouTube channel (Movies with Mikey, Deep Dive, etc.) makes incredibly well-produced video essays on film and occasionally TV and games. The channel's focus is on positivity and finding things to love about everything. And YouTube doesn't promote that sort of thing anymore, so the channel's creators (one of whom has multiple sclerosis) are running out of money and close to losing their house. Binge these genuinely incredible video essays with adblock turned off or, better yet, sign up to their Patreon and binge them with adblock on. Seriously, I love this channel so much, and if they don't get a boost in income soon, they're going to have to stop making videos. And I want more videos. Seriously, even watch the videos about things you haven't seen. They've persuaded me to watch loads of stuff I never would have watched otherwise and they're very good about not spoiling things (and giving spoiler warnings when needed).

AyeForScotland on Twitch: This is Tumblr's very own very handsome pro-Scottish-independence @ayeforscotland who has an incredible accent and plays loads of interesting games. He's going for Partner on Twitch now, which he has already earned but been denied due to an absurd technicality regarding whether viewers being linked to the channel directly from Tumblr integration. Go follow him now if he's not live, and when he goes live, go to Twitch and manually click on his name to watch the stream, since that's apparently the best way to get him the boost he needs. He sometimes has @thebibliosphere on as a guest (DOUBLE SCOTTISH ACCENTS HELL YES) and you can watch archives of many of his streams on his YouTube Channel.

Africa Everyday: This YouTube channel is run by Babatunde, a Nigerian man who shares his life and culture, makes cooking videos, and generally is a pleasure to watch and listen to. Seriously he's one of the kindest human beings I've ever spoken with. The money he earns from the channel goes towards helping his family and his community.

CHEAP AND WORTH PAYING FOR:

Dropout.tv: You simply will not find better comedy entertainment for the money. A monthly or yearly subscription is just a few dollars a month and gives you access to countless hours of top-quality entertainment from a company that started their own streaming service rather than cater to YouTube's algorithm. This is the place that started as College Humor, but if you haven't seen them in a while, you really need to check it back out. They're incredibly inclusive in their casting and theming and the production values are insane. I recommend starting with Game Changer, a show which has made me laugh so hard I choked and almost threw up. They also have Dimension 20 (or D20), the highest-quality DnD series out there, with custom-made sets and minis, usually with a focus on sheer comedy rather than drama (most of the cast members are comedy writers or comedians) - but it WILL and I mean WILL make you cry now and then. The currently in-progress season of D20 is called Dungeons and Drag Queens and the players are four literal actual fucking drag queens including Bob the Drag Queen and friends? You need to be watching this. If you have any doubts about whether Dropout is worth it or don't have any money, you can watch many full episodes for free on the CollegeHumor YouTube channel, although they have to censor the swears on there.

Nebula: Remember Lindsay Ellis? She left YouTube because of [too many reasons to list] but it turns out she's still active, she's just on Nebula now. Nebula is the co-op of streaming sites. Users sign up for a low monthly fee and the income is distributed among the creators, weighted according to how many views they get. The videos are uncensored and ad-free and contain lots of stuff that later needs to be edited out of YouTube videos to avoid copyright strikes. They've got FilmJoy on there (remember them from the start of this list?), Philosophy Tube (@theabigailthorn), Jacob Geller, Extra Credits, and loads and loads of other stuff on all different sorts of topics. Many of these channels also have YouTube channels that contain most of their content if you can't afford a Nebula subscription, but Nebula supports them more and gives them more creative freedom.

I'm gonna stop here for now but I'll add more in reblogs as the strike continues.

I hereby invite all of you to ruin my notifications until the strike is over. Reblog this, add your recommendations (especially ones that most people might not know about), and pass it on. There will not be a single complaint about lack of things to watch while the strike is ongoing.

(Why yes I am looking for more things to watch too. I've already seen all of the above. Bring it on.)

(And if you have a few dollars to spare, support the strikers directly at the Entertainment Community Fund.)

[juurensha]

Hi...if you don't mind me asking, who are your favorite romantic relationship's couples in books/ manga/ anime/movies/tv series (can be canon or non-canon)? And why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before...... Thanks....

Ohohoho, I do love this question! I will try to list out my top 10 ships (although if you’re interested in more detail, check out my ship meme tag! I really need to start writing some of those again....)

1. Dabi/Hawks (BNHA)

This should come as no surprise to anyone hahahaha. I’ve written 30+ fics about them at this point, and I still love them! They’re foils, and no matter what happens in canon, they’ve got some foe-yay chemistry going on there!

2. Li Jinglong/Kong Hongjun (Tianbao)

Tianbao is my favorite danmei novel hands down, and these guys are a big reason why! They start off just flirty, get a little tragic when you realize they were childhood friends in the past who forgot each other, and they both grow together!

3. Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru (Haikyuu)

Bickering childhood friends! The best trope, and I love all their interactions together!

4. Mei Changsu/Xiao Jingyan (Nirvana in Fire)

Also childhood friends (are you seeing a running theme here, sorry, I love the trope), although currently Prince Jing thinks that his best friend Lin Shu is DEAD AND HE MUST HONOR HIS MEMORY AND CLEAR HIS NAME. Unknown to him however, Lin Shu is alive, and has changed his appearance into Mei Changsu, Prince Jing’s main advisor, all to clear his family name and make Jingyan emperor. There is TRAGEDY EVERYWHERE in this drama, but it’s beautiful, and the only thing I’m mad about is EVERYONE GASLIGHTING JINGYAN INTO THINKING MEI CHANGSU ISN’T LIN SHU and the fact that MEI CHANGSHU SHOULD HUG JINGYAN GDI.

5. Hannibal Lecter/Will Graham (Hannibal)

The top mind game ship and the most messed up relationship possibly on this list, but I DEVOURED every episode of Hannibal when it was coming out, and it was so much fun to watch the game between these two. I don’t even need a season 4, I was really happy where it ended for season 3.

6. Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes (Captain America)

Yet another childhood friends relationship, and yet another one where one person thinks the other is dead, but in this case of course, Bucky comes back as a brainwashed super-assassin. There’s a lot of snark here, and yes, I know Marvel was too much of a coward to make it canon, or even to really let them be friends after the Winter Soldier movie, but that’s what fic is for.

7. Quan Yizhen/Yin Yu (Tian Guan Ci Fu)

Technically, I guess this could also count as childhood friends, but really, they’re a shixiong/shidi relationship, and in this case, with the shixiong completely jealous of how awesome the shidi has become, and how much he has replaced him, but loving him anyway despite himself. I like to think that the two of the made up after the novel!

8. Faith Lehane/Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Foe-yay tastic with former allies turned enemies turned reluctant allies again, Buffy is the Chosen One, until her near death experience means that there’s now a Chosen Two. I will always root for Faith over Buffy’s other love interests because Faith gets the entire slayer thing and has an edgy bad-girl vibe without being a vampire! (Buffy, you need to stop dating vampires, it seems to always end badly)

9. Anne Elliot/Captain Wentworth (Persuasion)

Former sweethearts, now awkwardly meeting again after nearly a decade! Wentworth so badly wanting Anne to see that he’s DOING FINE DOING GREAT ACTUALLY HE’S A CAPTAIN NOW AND EVERYTHING, while Anne is just sad about the entire thing. Thankfully, Wentworth sees how competent Anne is, and also that them splitting up 10 years ago was probably right, but they manage to find their way to each other again!

10. Sherlock Holmes/John Watson

Yes, you’ll note how I’m using the old Jeremy Brett version and not the BBC Sherlock version, because honestly, Sherlock doesn’t have the same characterization of the original books, besides not knowing how to resolve a plotline. Anyway, the original detective and assistant duo! Got to love them and how long they’ve endured through the years.

Honorable Mentions: Batman/Catwoman (Dc Comics), Jason Todd/Dick Grayson (DC Comics), Harrowhark Nonagesimus/Gideon Nav (Locked Tomb series),  Homura/Madoka (Madoka Magica), Kashima Yuu/Hori Masayuki (Gekkan Shojo Nozaki Kun), Gu Jianshen/Shen Qingxian (Want to Ascend, then fall in love), Sam Vimes/Havelock Vetinari (Discworld novels), Shen Jiu/Yue Qingyuan (Scum Villain Self-Saving System), and Xiang Cheng/Chi Xiaoduo (Mingwang, part of Feitian’s Exorcist novels).

[mad-rdr]

To Paradise - Hanya Yanagihara

Overall rating: ★ ★ ★/5

This book was actually split into three different stories so I'm going to do three reviews because they all live separately in my head.

tldr; this book is longer than it should've been and frankly the only section really worth reading is the third one, which deals with a dystopian narrative. There are more details under the cut, but for the most part, I don't know if I'd buy this book again if I could go back in time.

Book I: ★ ★ ★/5 - This first book was very intriguing. We are introduced to this alternate version of America and the dynamics that come from it are wild. The whole concept of the Free States is pretty cool, but if we talk about the ability to marry whomever you like, regardless of gender, we are also going to have to talk about how incredibly racist the "country" is. The Free States very much gave me the vibes of the rich, elite, and powerful carving out a section of land for themselves and gatekeeping it. Anyways, that's just the setting. The actual story was good as well, but David as a character was very frustrating. His grandfather was literally like, this Edward dude is manipulative and doesn't actually love you, he's just using you with evidence to back it up and David was like, but I love him and I want to be more than your heir. Which, valid second point because that man was extremely coddled and quite literally had no life other than his grandfather, but c'mon man, choose a better way to be rebellious. Also, he treated Charles like shit for no good reason and that's terrible.

Book II: ★ ★/5 - This book was really like two stories in one, we have yet another David, and then his father, who tells his story in the second half. This story felt... repetitive. I remember what happened, but it didn't really hold my interest. David is living with his much older husband where he has to hide his relationship in public for whatever reason (I'm confused as to why both this story and the previous take place in New York, a city in the Free States, and yet the views on homosexuality are different? Did something change in the century that passed? I'm honestly not sure). David is living half a life but has to be grateful for it because he's surrounded by those who are dying from AIDS. We then get a story of David's history from his father, heir to Hawaiian throne. That story was significantly more interesting, and I could go on about more of the manipulation we saw going on here with Edward (yes, another one. the author uses the same character names in every story), who isolated David's father and tried to live off the land. I would say this story was sadder than the first one, and I really felt for David's father, but it was just so dull.

Book III: ★ ★ ★ ★/5 - This story was by far the best of the three and I would rather have had this be the entire novel. Set in 2093, and narrated by a woman, this story takes place in a dystopian version of the US, one ravaged by diseases and a pandemic every ten ish years. The themes played out in this book were much more interesting, the idea of government censorship, losing freedoms for the sake of health, and many more, were so interesting and well played out. Woven into this book are the letters of the narrator's grandfather, Charles (the MC's name is Charlie, and once again there is a David and an Edward), as he writes to his friend in New Britian. Through these letters we see the creation of this dystopian state and how things were gradual until they weren't. Suddenly waking up and realizing you cannot leave this country you helped created. I'm already a sucker for dystopian novels, and this one was no different. It was surreal to read about pandemics while currently living through one, and it makes you think about what the future of healthcare is going to look like.

[thenonbinarydetective]

Hi! I saw your post about your favorite ridiculous moments in the Hardy Boys books and you mentioned how one of them was how they describe Ned Nickerson and I'd absolutely love to know more about how they describe Ned/your opinion/reaction of that if you don't mind?

Ok I realized Ned is only in three of the books I have, so if you want a part 2...give me money you're gonna have to wait until I can. It was pretty much a joke, but also entirely serious.

I don't have the Captain America reference that I specifically made a joke about, but I know that it's on Tumblr.

Overall, sometimes in the way that Ned is described is supposed to be like a jealous thing (When it's the Hardy Boys narrating), but it's really easy to not see it that way. Like they do like Ned and they are friends with him. Just wanna preface that because these can be read as either platonic or romantic. But also I'm slightly giving it the same treatment they give Nancy and the Hardy Boys, cause why should it be different? You know?

Also that personally I believe all of them are bi (I'm not projecting). Ignoring the sexist versions of the Hardy Boys (primarily Joe), they're way too good to be straight men. Also Ned specifically does not have that many Straight Man Traits™ and that he's entirely willing to be a damsel-in-distress. Ned's technically gender-nonconformative role is not really an important part of this conversation, but I think it should be talked about more.

Anyway I'm rambling. Here's what I'm calling evidence.

Shock Waves

First thing is actually sort of on Ned's side. Joe has a melted set of Iola's keys (remember in this spin-off she was fridged via terrorist bombing) that goes missing. Ned immediately starts looking for them when he sees how upset Joe is about losing them.

The (flirty) banter. It's written the same way banter between Nancy and Frank, Nancy and Ned, or even Nancy or Joe is written. Minus blushing. And the only reason I'm calling this significant because they write banter that's 100% meant to be platonic with a different tone (and adjectives). The Cousins interaction with the Brothers and the Alliteratives have a noticeably different tone (sometimes).

In Chapter Five, Joe found a gold coin and assumes treasure. Nancy and Frank doubt it. Joe tries to defend himself. Ned seemingly comes to his defense. "'I'm not so sure,' Ned piped up. Joe smiled "I knew somebody would have to be on my side'" Ned's response is kinda long but he jokes that Long John Silver was returning the coin to Davy Jones. Joe does not appreciate the joke, but jokingly warns them that if they aren't nice, they won't get a cut.

In Chapter Eight, Frank wants to drive the Oldsmobile. "'Good luck starting it,' Ned said. Frank smiled confidently. 'You just don't have the knack, Nickerson.'"

I should note, the last name thing is usually used in Files (sometimes Mystery Stories too) when couples are flirting with each other. I think like there's a few instances in sport settings where it's probably platonic. Here, questionable. There isn't much use of Marvin or Fayne. Drew and Nickerson on the other hand...

In Chapter Eleven, this may not be the best example. Frank gives Ned a "Thanks a lot buddy" when he and Nancy got separated from the group.

I only mention it because Ned returns the buddy later on when Frank "saves" them all from an explosion. "'We owe our lives to you, buddy,' he said with an admiring grin." If we're really deeply examining the words to find the slightest bit of homoerotic intent in an excessively heteronormative book, Ned's admiring grins don't go to many people other than Nancy. I would know.

While investigating a sunken ship, they all end up apart from each other. There's an explosion in the area where Ned is. The Hardy Boys (specifically Frank) forced Nancy to stay in the water in hopes that Ned wasn't caught in the blast. Nancy assumes Ned is dead, it's three explosions. Probably wouldn't survive if he was there. The Hardy Boys immediately search for Ned, once it's safe, in the hope that he was alive. He was obviously.

Throughout the entire book, I don't even think it's an exaggeration to say that the Hardy Boys spent more time with Ned than they did Nancy. Like a lot of the time they (intentionally) split up, Ned is always with them. Even without Nancy once or twice.

Which I find funny, because it feels like Frank is trying to get Ned's attention and not hers. Nancy's like I hope I don't make jealous because of the tension between me and Frank" and Frank is putting himself with Ned and like any opportunity. That may not be limited to this book, which is why it's last.

Dangerous Games

There really isn't much interaction between them in the book until the end

The Hardy Boys, primarily Joe, direct all the praise for saving the girls to Ned even though they all technically saved them because he was the one who discovered they were in trouble.

Seriously Joe does not waste the opportunity to praise Ned for his quick action. First there was, "If it hadn't been for Ned..." Followed by a "Good thing Ned was around" when Frank and Joe find out how the girls where locked in a burning building.

Again simple, but effective. People have claimed more with less, if we're being fair.

This last one is sort of on Ned's side, and I don't know why but the way he sort of like hypes on Frank a little bit when he and Nancy are talking about her mistaking him for Frank when he saves her from the fire. It just hits different.

"Frank Hardy's a detective. I'm not. Naturally, you thought he was the one who'd rescue you...You and Frank work so well together-it's like you're practically one person. He's a part of your detective life that sometimes take you away from me. I think maybe I resent that a little"

I know that looks like a pretty Francy heavy bit (and it is), but the second part of that speech makes me think a bit deeper. "Look, I can't change the way I feel any more than you can stop being a detective. Without that, you wouldn't be the Nancy Drew I know and love." Like that's a sweet sentiment and all, but English Major here I'm reading further into it. The way he compares Nancy and Frank as being so similar they are practically the same person, and then going on to say the qualities they share are one of the reasons he's attracted to and loves Nancy.

All I'm saying, is that if he finds detectives hot, what's stopping him from finding Frank attractive...Right? lmao

The Last Resort

Again there's not much interaction with the three of them because Ned only appear in the final chapters.

On the cover Frank is wearing an ugly snowsuit with yellow, pink, and blue on it. I normally wouldn't think twice about it, but considering it's so ugly it entirely matches the vibes of your bi (in this case pan) friend buying the ugliest oversized Hawaiian shirt and the thrift store and calling it the cutest thing they've ever brought.

I should mention that Nancy is also wearing a snowsuit featuring blue, pink, and yellow. However, her suit is not that ugly and therefore less noteworthy.

I'm not even sure if I'm counting that as a point or if I just wanted an excuse to talk about the ugly snowsuit and how I honestly want it for myself.

When Ned finally does arrive, after a little bit of an awkward exchange, The first thing Frank says after explaining that why he and Joe were there is, "Your being here is a real boost, Ned...This one has us all stumped" This could be seen as like a thing just to break the awkward tension, but I like to think there is some truth in that Frank does appreciate Ned's intelligence and his input on mysteries.

And if he didn't before, he would after this case because Ned kinda solves the entire mystery- or at least the important part they were missing.

The entire exchange of when Nancy suggests bluffing the villain, there's just something I love about it. May I suggest polyamory?

Ned: Nancy, bluffing can be dangerous. What happens if he doesn't fall for it?

Frank (grinning): But Ned, Nancy's a very convincing person.

Ned: I don't want her to get into trouble, that's all.

Frank: Me neither, but I think [REDACTED] will fall for a bluff. He's ready. Look at him, he's wound up like a coil

Nancy (touching Ned's arm): Ned, I don't see any other way. Do you?

I just like the two of them (mostly Frank) convincing Ned to go through with a dangerous plan. Also the way Frank is talking about Nancy to Ned, it's just like a vibe you know?

Moving on, I love any moment the three of boys work together to do something. Like combining their strengths to bust down a locked door and chase a bad guy in perfect unison with no prior planning. That doesn't have to be gay either, I just love them working together.

After a snowmobile crash, Frank does make it a priority to see if Ned's okay. Over a bad guy who was the only other person involved, but priority nonetheless.

Technically he tells Nancy to do it, while he sees if the bad guy is alive. But hear me out, Nancy (Ned's girlfriend) struggles to choose between seeing if Ned is okay or getting the bad guy. Frank (who is meant to be a love rival) thinks about Ned's well-being more decisively than Ned's girlfriend.

Que the "Nancy's a bad girlfriend" joke, I never really expected the punchline to be "Frank is a better boyfriend to Ned". I like it though.

This one is sort of a joke (as if all of this wasn't), but everyone either at breakfast or accounted for if they aren't besides Ned and Frank. They appear second to last (Joe is on the phone) together. I'm going to imagine they were alone together. Maybe that's why they seem to be in such a good mood.

That's all the moments that I'm calling evidence. Is it insane? Possibly. Do I care? No, this was mostly for fun. Also I kinda ship Ned with Frank. Like I've said, his entire character design was to specifically be the love interest to a detective. That accidentally makes him pretty compatible to multiple detectives.

Also a commentary on how somethings age to be somewhat gayer than intended. But it really isn't surprising for a queer like myself to find the slimmest of gayness in extreme heteronormative conditions.

Anyway, thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed this!

[salty-dracon]

Day 2 of Id:Invaded.

I realize I'm only like 2 episodes in and I have a less than stellar opinion so far (i mean i felt the same about B:TB sooooo) but I can't stop thinking about how my other ocs' mindscapes, or id wells, would look in this setting. Like the only "mindscapes" you really find in my work are the ones I wrote for my Somnium Files AU and whatever Tawny goes through in Lostgods.

Tawny's id well would be incredibly hard for anyone diving in though. Even though he's killed the least number of people out of any of my characters (the number of people his actions killed was a grand total of THREE including himself, disregarding the number of people he thought would die with him) his would be basically an enclosed room filled with flashing colors and light and change literally every second. One minute you might be chased by a laughing monster, the second there might be a crying child hiding under the bed. He's just really emotional like that and has suppressed a lot of traumatic memories. A good amount of his art is about death and suicide too.

Lyra's (in Lostgods he killed millions!) which I wrote in the Somnium Files AU Quantum Ghost was a completely white version of his office with colorful flowerpots on the floor. Messing with things in the room opened up secret rooms all over. It was also the source for the story's biggest theme, "What Lies Behind Death? Time."

I actually did write a dreamscape for Angel (has killed over a thousand people) once in the scrapped SECRET Agents sequel, where he deludes himself into believing that he was a single father to Nick and Bridget and raised them both happily. Even though in practice he's a pretty terrible father and he didn't actually meet Bridget until she was in high school, he really did love them both and he wanted them both to be happy.

Anyway, Day 2, begin.

HE HAS A WIFE?! HE HAS A KID?! Man this guy doesn't even give "divorced" vibes, he gives "unmarried, single forever" vibes.

that is, blatantly, one of the most horrible ways you could kill a literal child. i should know! you really don't want to know about the horrible ways the children in my work have died!

danganronpa 2 fireworks scene.mov

this npc looks like elon musk

see, if this were america, you'd have people clapping and cheering for no reason other than "there were fireworks and explosions".

I don't think I ever brought up Inception before, but the whole "dive into your own unconsciousness and you'll be forced to wander it forever" and "you could actually get stuck in the mental world" are very Inceptiony.

"Narihisago" is Sakaido's actual human self, I guess.

All right, the second Id Well helps out on figuring out what's going on. Narihisago is the pilot. When he dives in, his consciousness manifests as "Sakaido", who looks like a younger version. A bit like a Psyncer and an AI-Ball from AI The Somnium Files, so you could compare Narihisago and Sakaido to Date and Aiba for instance. You don't remember anything when you hop in, so Kaeru's presence is what helps Sakaido remember that he's a dream detective and he's here to go clue hunting.

Like B:TB, this is one of those anime where you'll probably be wrong if you try to run deductions too fast. That being said, I do find it interesting how unlike the Perforator, this person's cognitive humans all beg for help. I don't think he really cares about who or what they are, just that they're people and just that they're screaming.

Anyone reading this is going to think I'm a future serial killer by the end. I'm literally just a guy who likes to write about serial killers. But yeah, this is basically Lyra from Lost Gods. His victims are all in his cage, because his reach is practically omnipotent. The joy comes in watching them scream for help, do ridiculous things for the slim chance they might be saved, and then die horribly, over and over and over.

oh my god. that's funny. I knew what it was the moment they said "it's midday"- the sniper isn't running around at the speed of sound in the waterfall, it's that the pillar they're on is rotating. You'd be able to tell if the pillar was rotating based on how the shadows of each person fell and if that changed over time. But not if it's noon and the sun is directly overhead.

there's a very funny parallel between the guy with the giant art deco style black and white photograph on his wall, and the guy with the Do It For Her wall.

roast his ass! roast his ass! roast his ass!

narihisago: *roasts the pyrotechnician so hard that he hangs himself*

perforator: well, none of my business

the next day...

police guy: how do you know about the method we use to hunt down serial killers?!

perforator: so uh do you remember how i had one of your associates strapped to a table and i was planning to shove a drill through her skull? did that not occur to you at all?

hot take: anaido serves less cunt than the perforator

and that means kaeru is what, the impressed cognition of the, uh, (shit what did they call it) unknown factors within the psync machine onto the victim of a given case? which is also a concept i worked with in quantum ghost. call it "i hate the secretly-a-twin trope so i made triplets instead like in genshin impact".

are all of the serial killers really going to form some kind of serial killer avengers team? that would be hilarious if it weren't for the fact that everyone in the office is just roasting him for dying too much

That's Fucked! That's Supremely Fucked!

... you know, if a video like this is getting 30k views easy, it would probably discourage the gravedigger a lot to just. exercise moderator powers and *pop* kill the stream

small bunker-like area, and kaeru is burnt to death. i guess that means that surviving in small, enclosed spaces means something to the killer.

and fire, an implement that is basically a chemical reaction that consumes oxygen. could have something to do with the suffocation, since running out of oxygen means you die.

"why didn't any cognition particles appear at the sites of the other five streams?" easy. the original gravedigger wanted everyone to escape somehow, and to him that didn't register as the drive to kill. the gravedigger actually wants this person dead. and we already know that this girl watches the snuff films herself, because she knew the time that the longest gravedigger victim lasted.

JAMMING

oh. or a copycat crime.

shoutout to this absolutely fucking furious police guy for making possibly one of the funniest "people who havent watched this anime, what's going on here?" frames ever

"i keep driving people to suicide" is a hell of a problem. "i keep driving serial killers to suicide" is like a whole new dimension to his problem.

WH- ? WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT RANDOM KISS

i mean yeah thats pretty obvious (at least in a police drama), why would you check out the crime scene of a copycat and then run away? because you're the real one! and why would you kiss someone who tracked you down? to silence them.

or....you get horny when you want to kill someone. the opposite of kaname date who gets good at killing when he's horny

SEND IN THE TWINK!

*points furiously* THE ORIGINAL MINECRAFT SKYBLOCK REFERENCE!

HE SOLVED IT INSTANTLY LMAOOOOOO

hello THIS MAN.

i know this genre. those barrels are filled with bombs. those wires are bomb cables.

wHAT did i just FUCKING TELL YOU

that woman is an accomplice and she enjoys watching people die.

two people fishing information out of each other. this is death note

wHAT did i just FUCKING TELL YOU

i actually did catch the knives, i was like "is that a knife holder?" and then i realized that the lack of knives in the knife holder was more suspicious.

i know how they're typecasting hondomachi. he's going to get horny again and try something again with her that she tried to kill his not-girlfriend

wHAT did i just- okay, it's not funny anymore

they're spending time questioning who john walker is but not who kaeru is. there's a lot here that suggests the existence of a collective unconscious, so couldn't he just be some guy walking through the collective subconscious? i actually don't know what the plot of the THIS MAN movie was supposed to be, but john walker seems like a pretty overt reference to it

another ai the somnium files parallel. there's secretly a second psync machine mizuhanome.

oh. oh my god. if the aptitude to kill makes you a worthy mizuhanome using candidate, that would mean that hondomachi, who just murdered someone, would be a good candidate!

*cheesy singer voice* he took the midnight train, goin' anywhere....*

i can't tell if it's just the camera angle but kaeru looks so sad this time

i like the atmosphere of this id well specifically, it feels like taking the train from new jersey back to new york city in the dead of night. it feels sad and lonely and warm at the same time.

i wonder if all of the injected avatars have this instinctual desire to protect kaeru. we never really saw with anaido, and i hope we see it with who hondomachi's avatar is

hondomachi really went "thanks for giving me a better position" and her boss really turned back at her and said "this is a performance improvement plan" like OUCH

oh SHIT, the case is connected back to the serial killer that killed narihisago's daughter!

serial killers be loving their weird shit. like applause noises that definitely didn't exist to cover up a different noise

i feel a bit bad comparing hondomachi to lily from b:tb, but they've both got very similar roles with them being "the newfound second best" compared to the male lead and also just having random weird romantic tension moments. but also being pretty badass in their own rights

time to dive into the brain of the psyncer himself- AWW SHES WEARING A LITTLE DETECTIVE OUTFIT THATS SO CUTEEEEE

his id well is an infinite puzzle field! that's not great! looks like stepping on the wrong numbers gets you exploded. which, ironically, would hilariously match keith flick from b: the beginning to a tee, since mathematics was his whole thing. honestly if you put keith to task here, he'd probably solve the whole thing within five minutes

fukuda: fuck yeah we love holes

inami: i am personally ambivalent towards holes. my not boyfriend had a hole and it connected us. and then a cop with a hole murdered my not boyfriend.

fukuda: hey i know that cop! FUCK YEAH WE LOVE HOLES!

now while mathematics is an important part of a lot of my work, secretagents and tmx being big ones,

"why is miyo hijiriido the only one with a full name?" *does not get an answer*

hijiriido: i'm trapped in scrabble with numbers!

narihisago: GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD

the chairman is giving me red flags somehow. like i know he's good friends with narihisago but he knew his daughter well enough to consider her courageous?

oh my god. are they actually going to do the dream-within-a-dream thing from inception???

i didn't point it out but i thought it was a little weird that when they listed the challenger's victims, there was one more portrait after the little girl muku's picture. "the surviving victim is the killer" was how it went in one of my favorite episodes of criminal minds.

WHAT??? WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT IT WAS THE CHAIRMAN

Like, let's talk about this. It makes sense if John Walker is a subconscious criminal, that he'd want to eliminate evidence of anyone seeing him or any of his actions. Why not use the guy who chills with serial killers? Who has a weird quirk of talking killers into suicide? Who would know about that except for his closest friends? Now what doesn't make sense is how Momoki was able to walk into the Id wells when he was being a pilot.

Yeah, the pi thing and the day of the murder is the sort of thing Keith Flick would be able to figure out if you gave him five minutes and a whiteboard.

and the award for the world's worst brain detective goes to....

how do 13 people suddenly fall into comas? does any of it have to do with like, infectious cognition particles or something?

TRIPLE PSYNC TRIPLE PSYNC TRIPLE PSYNC

i am extremely tempted to spoil quantum ghost but it's one of my favorite twists i've written so i'm gonna stay quiet

aw shit they trapped these kids in the middle of old america (reference to my own work)

presidential alert the boys are fighting

togo, smashing the podium with her fists: OH MY GOD STOP FIGHTING YOU'RE BOTH SERIAL KILLER BRILLIANT DETECTIVES

togo is going to hit them with the league of legends sett w if they don't stop doing weird shit

presidential alert the detectives are fighting

that is actually apparently how you escape quicksand.

time's stopped in a desert world with nothing in it except for a dead body where the strange part is that she's missing a watch, two detectives, a hawk, the unmoving sun, and footprints. hmmmm.

does momoki believe john walker's in his head? or does momoki have some information that needs to be kept top secret in his head?

episodes that make you realize that someone has put sakaido and anaido as "red oni blue oni" on tvtropes. even though they're really just two guys and one's friendlier than the other

i love how everyone in the command room is just so sick of their shit

what is within the well within the well? the answer is probably a third well.

i'm going to stop here for today. the plot's picked up significantly, and i'm really enjoying it. we'll probably finish tomorrow.

I'm watching ID:Invaded, a murder mystery anime about jumping into the mindscapes of killers and using it to track them down.

So far it's a lot like the AI: The Somnium Files series, with many similar things like an overly long psync animation, crazy dream worlds that follow very specific rules, a giant circular room with someone who does nothing but bark orders and a computer technician (more than one actually), and serial killer hunting.

Ep1 started out strong but animation was like a 5/10, dub cast is fantastic. I'm sort of switching between both to see how they handle certain scenes.

The MC is a little bit silly, though I hope his apparent amnesia is just a side effect of him hopping into a cognitive world (like how you forget things when you're dreaming). I also really like Hondomachi so I hope she doesn't become a damsel in distress archetype who only shines when none of the male characters can a la Lily from B: The Beginning.